Check out our preview of the Rock and Metal new album releases dropping this week, on 5-19-2023:
Tag Archives: Metal albums
ALBUM REVIEW: Death Goals – A Garden Of Dead Flowers
Imagining what sounds the absence of something emits can be as intangible as it is incomprehensible. A garden of dead flowers, for example, would presumably lack much in the way of disturbances or noises. Yet, Death Goals penned a soundtrack for that scene and it’s deranged, cantankerous, and irrepressible.
ALBUM REVIEW: Defiled – The Highest Level
With album artwork that looks like Job For A Cowboy meets a color run, the latest chapter in the death-metal saga of Defiled’s career is no less domineering or pounding than anything else the Tokyo-based band has delivered during their multi-decade existence.
ALBUM REVIEW: Fires In The Distance – Air Not Meant For Us
Fires In The Distance do not do anything halfway.
Since 2021’s debut Billboard-charting opus Echoes From Deep November, the melodic doomsters set out on a course to carve out their colossal identity. As a response, Air Not Meant For Us transcends music. With larger-than-life compositions and stunning atmospherics, the Prosthetic Records release averages nine minutes a song and impressively builds on FITD’s earlier success.
EP REVIEW: Veiled – The Black Rite
United Kingdom-based bruisers Veiled opted to release ‘Relinquished’ as the first single to give a taste of what was to come in the form of EP The Black Rite (Seek & Strike). Continue reading
ALBUM REVIEW: Sunrot – The Unfailing Rope
One of the many things to appreciate about Sunrot’s second full-length is the opener, ‘Descent.’
Not only is the title extremely indicative of the track – and the record, The Unfailing Rope (Prosthetic Records), as a whole – it also gets right to the point of what the New Jersey-based sludge metal/noise band is trying to achieve: uneasiness and mind play.
EP REVIEW: Fit For An Autopsy – Thy Art Is Murder – Malevolence: The Aggression Sessions
Metal is allowed to be fun, especially when three heavyweights collide in a tri-split that not only features original songs from each, but unlikely cover tracks which allow for displays of versatility.
ALBUM REVIEW: Allfather – A Violent Truth – Trepanation Recordings
There is nothing – nothing – clean about Allfather.
Not the production or tuning; not the various vocal methods; not the atmosphere or tone.Continue reading
ALBUM REVIEW: Lamp Of Murmuur – Saturnian Bloodstorm
For forty uncertain, eerie and downright unsettling minutes, black metal project Lamp Of Murmuur grips the listener with a sturdy hand and refuses to let go until fear, disgust and melancholy take over.
ALBUM REVIEW: Gideon – More Power More Pain
Eschewing hip-hop elements and influences, Alabama hardcore outfit Gideon returns with a metallic, crunchy slugfest that is More Power More Pain (Rude Records/Equal Vision), the bruisers’ sixth full-length record.